Hearth
Free Discord-style chat app for Windows: text, voice, video
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Hearth is a free desktop chat app for Windows, built for communities, friend groups and gaming or study groups. Servers with text and voice channels, DMs and friend requests, one-to-one calls with camera and screen share, reactions, replies, threads, polls, link previews, roles and permissions, AutoMod, audit log, forum channels, reminders and an in-app updater. Installer or portable exe. Not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns on first run (More info, Run anyway).
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Windows
- Social Networking
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See all 174 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial Servers, channels, roles, and text chat are standard CRUD and websocket work. Real-time voice and video with screen share at any real scale needs WebRTC media infrastructure that is hard to get right.
What it would actually take: A realistic build would use a Windows client (Electron, Tauri, or native), a websocket gateway for presence and messages, and a managed or self-hosted WebRTC SFU such as LiveKit or mediasoup for calls and screen share. The hard parts are media server scaling, NAT traversal with TURN, jitter and echo handling, and permissions and moderation at community scale. That requires real-time systems and networking expertise plus ongoing infrastructure costs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- RookTalk · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Hearth · hn · 2026-08-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- yapfast · github · 2026-10-16 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Porch · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Orbit · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- hearthlight.github.io · github · 2026-09-28 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Pinghug · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- VYRO · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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